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A study of shite-miseru with the meaning of evaluation

  • The Japanese Language Association of Korea
  • Abbr : JLAK
  • 2014, (42), pp.95-109
  • Publisher : The Japanese Language Association Of Korea
  • Research Area : Humanities > Japanese Language and Literature

SUNG Jihyun 1

1한국방송통신대학교

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ABSTRACT

This paper presents the syntactic, lexical, morphological and contextual factors that make shite-miseru convey the meaning of evaluation. Specifically, we have showed that shite-miseru conveys the meaning of evaluation in the following cases: (i) when it does not accompany the postpositional particle ni and the subject is the third person [syntactic factor]; (ii) when the verb preceding shite-miseru implies the evaluation of achievement as in “show the ability” or leads to achievement as in “meet the expectations” rather than simple actions such as “sit” or “sleep” [lexical factor]; (iii) when the phrase takes the form of shite-miseta, which indicates that the action has been already realized [morphological factor]; and (iv) when efforts or difficulties in the course of achieving an outcome is presented in the sentence [contextual factor]. Taking that shite-miseru takes a third-person subject into account, we have analyzed a variety of examples where shite-miseru has the meaning of evaluation in newspaper articles, which are typically written in the third person point of view. The results showed thatsuch a usage of shite-miseru appears most often in sports- or culture-related articles, which typically describe new records,exhibitions or works. These achievements usually require considerable efforts and endurance of a person; we think this is why shite-miseru with the meaning of evaluation is frequently used in these types of articles.

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